eli5: Why isn’t carbon capture used at emission sources?

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I know that there is ‘legacy carbon’ in the atmosphere that needs to get removed but why aren’t we leveraging carbon capture as part of industrial processes (e.g. at the factory’s smoke stack, for example). Or maybe we are already?

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There are companies trying to do it but it’s hard to do. For example, some companies are trying to put the sequestered carbon back underground but you have to have the geology to do that and it’s rarely right at the source. So then you’re stuck trying to pipe it somewhere to inject and we know how people feel about pipelines

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